Salvia fulgens

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Plant Characteristics
Habit   shrub

Height: 48 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 48.
Width: 30 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 30.
Lifespan: perennial
Bloom: early summer, mid summer, late summer
Cultivation
Exposure: sun
Features: flowers
USDA Zones: 9 to 10
Flower features: red, pink
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Scientific Names



Read about Salvia fulgens in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Salvia fulgens, Cav. (S. cardinalis, HBK.). Cardinal Salvia. Mexican Red Salvia. Perennial shrub, 2-3 ft. high: the numerous branches almost glabrous or pilose-hirsute: lvs. petiolate, 1-3 in. long, ovate, acute, crenate-serrate, base cordate, pubescent above, white-tomentose or lanate beneath; floral lvs. sessile, ovate, deciduous: racemes 6-12 in. long; floral whorls 6-fld., rather distant; calyx pedicelled, tubular-campanulate, pubescent; corolla showy scarlet, about 2 in. long, villous. July. Mex. B.R. 1356. L.B.C. 20: 1910.—The fls. are darker red than those of S. splendens and the calyx is said to be dull colored and conspicuously striate. Apparently not very frequently cult. Var. Boucheana, Benth. (S. Boucheana, Kunth), has the lvs. narrowly deltoid-ovate, truncate or subcordate at the base. Mex. CH


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